Meerut, Feb 24 (ANI): A high alert has been sounded in Meerut as a leopard has strayed into the city and injured at least two persons creating panic and prompting administration to order closure of schools and colleges. The big cat entered the Cantonment ...

ROME -- Italian Premier Matteo Renzi won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament on his brand new government early Tuesday, managing at least for now to tamp down anger from among his own Democrats over his brash, quick rise to power. The vote in the ...

President Museveni struck a familiar note today, suggesting that Uganda's latest controversy over homosexuality was the result of Western civilizations trying to impose their way of life. After signing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Monday, President Museveni ...

The Finnish handset maker has finally unveiled its much talked of Android phone, the Nokia X, at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2014. Nokia has launched a family Android phones with three variants--Nokia X, X+ and XL--at affordable prices. All three ...

BARCELONA; Sony is borrowing innovations from its audio and camcorder businesses and incorporating its new Xperia Z2 smartphone with noise-cancelling technology and ultra-high-definition video recording. Noise cancellation works with an in-ear ...

(UPDATES with new lede, new info grafs 3-4, adds sound/video)) Egypt's interim prime minister has announced the resignation of his Cabinet in a surprise move that could pave the way for the country's military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to declare his ...

Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera aka 'el Chapo Guzman', is escorted by marines as he is presented to the press on February 22, 2014 in Mexico City. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) | RONALDO SCHEMIDT via Getty Images. share.

A daily roundup of terrorism and security issues. Skip to next paragraph. Arthur Bright. Europe Editor. Arthur Bright is the Europe Editor at The Christian Science Monitor. He has worked for the Monitor in various capacities since 2004, including as the Online ...

As Mexican troops forced their way into Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's main hideout in Culiacan, the country's most powerful drug lord sneaked out of the house through an escape tunnel beneath the bathtub. By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and ADRIANA GOMEZ ...

Was it the accent? The guns? As in an old British murder mystery, there were many possible motives and suspects in his show's demise. By James Poniewozik @poniewozikFeb. 24, 20140. Share. Read Later. Send to Kindle. Television host Piers Morgan ...

In a first-of-its-kind deal, Netflix has agreed to pay one of the largest broadband providers in the U.S., Comcast, for faster Internet speeds, to try to ensure smoother delivery of its customers' streaming movies and TV shows. The deal opens up the possibility ...

A wild leopard sparked off panic in Meerut when the big cat strayed into a crowded locality and later took refuge in a hospital, forcing the authorities to call for a shutdown in the city on Monday. The city wore a deserted look as army personnel cordoned off the ...

Sony Corp. took its time in the limelight at the Mobile World Congress trade fair here on Monday to prove to investors that its 'One Sony' strategy, a game-plan that involves all divisions of the working together, is showing signs of initial success. The company ...

Jan Koum, WhatsApp's chief executive, speaking at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona Manu Fernandez/Associated Press Jan Koum, WhatsApp's chief executive, speaking at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona on Monday.

IF WATCHING movies, taking photos, recording videos and listening to music is what you use your phone for, then Sony's new flagship Xperia Z2 could be the device for you. Announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Xperia Z2 is a ...

24 February 2014. Hazem el-Beblawi's military-backed government was sworn in on July 16, less than two weeks after the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi after a year in office. Also in this section. Uganda signs controversial anti-gay bill into ...

After countless leaks and months of speculation, Nokia finally took the wraps off of its latest project—the Nokia X. And true to all the rumors, the X eschews Nokia's cozy relationship with Windows Phone 8, in favor of a highly modified Android base. This is not ...

YULIA Tymoshenko's miraculous release was from a seven-year prison sentence imposed for a nonexistent crime. She had done nothing wrong: the police and prosecutors and jurists who fabricated her offence were subservient to a Ukrainian state that ...

It will come as no great surprise to many. Despite the tutting of the West, and the efforts of Uganda's small – and brave – gay rights community, the law has the backing of large numbers of Uganda's conservative churchmen, who are not exactly in the Lambeth ...

The capture by Mexican marines of drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman has been lauded as "an impeccable operation". The BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant looks at the significance of his arrest for the country's president, Enrique Pena Nieto. It is hard ...